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• Whacks  + (<p>A 2017 web search for <whacks london street game> returns only the Gomme source.</p>)
• Ontario Club of Oswego  + (<p>A BBC is mentioned in the Oswego Palladium, July 29, 1859, along with 2 cricket clubs and a wicket club.</p>)
• White Stockings Club of Sycamore  + (<p>A Blackhawks Club existed in 1872. See Sycamore True Republican, Jan. 20, 1906</p>)
• Chelsea Club of New York  + (<p>A Chelsea Jr. club mentioned in the New York <em>Clipper</em>, July 27, 1867</p>)
• 1st Nine v 2d Nine on 29 November 1873  + (<p>A December 19 challenge notice describes the "FBBClub of Co. H 6th U. S. Cavalry.</p>)
• In Providence in 1828  + (<p>A Dick Hefferline appears on the 1820 census for Providence. The reference is undoubtedly prior to 1828.</p>)
• Grant Base Ball Club of Philadelphia  + (<p>A Grant club is said to have existed in 1865. See Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865, Tholkes RIM. See Protoball 19C clippings. Aka U.S. Grant</p>)
• Hancock Club of Boston  + (<p>A Hancock club of Boston played the MA game and was established in 1857. See Lovett, James D’Wolf; Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played; Little, Brown & Company; 1908, cited in Kittel Protoball article on the MA game.</p>)
• Club of Amman  + (<p>A Palestine national baseball/sof … <p>A Palestine national baseball/softball federation was formed in 2017, according to the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WSBC) website, headquartered in Ramallah. The city and area were once part of Jordan. The area is now governed by the Palestinian National Authority.</p> by the Palestinian National Authority.</p>)
• Fox River Base Ball Club of McHenry  + (<p>A Puzzlers BBC was formed in 1876 in McHenry. McHenry <em>Plaindealer</em>, Aug. 30, 1876</p>)
• Marble City Club of Lemont  + (<p>A South Lemon Reapers club was defeated 49-11 by the Lockport Sleepers in 1874. See Will County Courier, Aug. 19, 1874</p>)
• Mt. Vernon Base Ball Club of Morgan Park  + (<p>A bb game was played in "Prospect … <p>A bb game was played in "Prospect Park" on July 4, 1875. See Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1875. Is this the Prospect Park that is now located in Morgan Park? Or a separate community? There was a PP in what is now Clarendon Hills, and another near Bloomingdale.</p>rendon Hills, and another near Bloomingdale.</p>)
• Lowell Club of Boston v Medford on 16 October 1861  + (<p>A brief account of this game, and a photo of the ball used in the game, is in the Boston Globe, Dec. 25, 1910.</p>)
• Olympic Club of St. Louis  + (<p>A club of Washington University students? See St. Louis Post Dispatch, Nov. 17, 1968</p>)
• Pesapallo  + (<p>A diagram of the game can be found at https://sites.psu.edu/ballgamesoftheworld/ball-and-bat-games/</p> <p>Pesapallo was a demonstration sport at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. [ba]</p>)
• Union grounds, Cincinnati  + (<p>A drawing of the Union grounds is in the Our Game blog, April 8, 2019</p>)
• Playground Ball  + (<p>A full explanation of Playground … <p>A full explanation of Playground Ball can be found in the <em>Pensacola News Journal</em>, May 5, 1908. The game was designed to be playable in limited spaces.  10 players a side. The batter can run to either first or third. 5 inning games. A tally for each time a batter gets on base safely. Each side of the diamond 35 feet long. Pitcher 30 feet away from the batter. Bats are mere sticks no more than 2 inches in diameter. [ba]</p>mere sticks no more than 2 inches in diameter. [ba]</p>)
• Washington Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>A junior club? See list of 1858 Brooklyn junior clubs at Chronologies 1858.47.</p>)
• Massapoag Club of Sharon v Olympic Club of Boston on 29 June 1857  + (<p>A lengthy article on this game is in the Boston Globe, March 27, 1888</p>)
• 1838.12  + (<p>A more detailed newspaper account … <p>A more detailed newspaper account says that Fisher Ames' 12-year-old son, who was playing "ball" with some other boys, threw a ball at Moor, who then attacked the boy. The father rushed over and split Moor's skull with a "club."</p></br><p>Fisher Ames (1800-85) beat the murder rap. The son was probably Charles Ira Ames. [ba]</p></br><p>Bill Humber furnished the following account, from a local doctor: "Hazleton Moore.... was drunk and joined in the game of ball in front of the store. Something Ames said or did provoked him and instead of throwing the ball to him he threw it at him, when Ames rushed towards him and struck him with the club in the head. He ... died the next day. The inquest... resulted in the acquittal of Ames on my evidence, that the blow need not have been fatal had M's skull not been extraordinarily thin."</p></br><p>Another account, from 1890: "It was in 1837 that Hazleton Moore was killed. I was there at the time. Ames was a very passionate man, and his first blow might be excused on that ground, but he struck him twice, the second blow when he was lying insensible on the ground. The Americans.... bribed Moore's wife to say away, and her absence at the trial helped to get Ames off. She acted badly."</p>say away, and her absence at the trial helped to get Ames off. She acted badly."</p>)
• 1862.11  + (<p>A note identifies this section as having been written in 1862, along with one that prohibits shaking carpets on public lands, including streets, lanes, alleys, etc.</p>)
• 1860.20  + (<p>A political cartoon of the day sh … <p>A political cartoon of the day showed Lincoln playing ball with other candidates. It can be viewed at  <a href="http://www.scvbb.org/images/image7/">http://www.scvbb.org/images/image7/</a>. </p></br><p>Thanks to Kyle DeCicco-Carey for the link.</p>t; <p>Thanks to Kyle DeCicco-Carey for the link.</p>)
• 1830s.16  + (<p>A previous Protoball entry, liste … <p>A previous Protoball entry, listed as #1840s.16: "He [Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s] joined with gusto in outdoor sports foot-races, jumping and hopping contests, town ball, wrestling . . . "  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Source: </span> a limited online version of the 1997 book edited by Douglas L Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Herndon's Informant</span>s</span> (U of Illinois Press, 1997 or 1998). Posted to 19CBB on 12/11/2007 by Richard Hershberger. Richard notes that the index to the book promises several other references to Lincoln's ballplaying but [Jan. 2008] reports that the ones he has found are unspecific.. <strong>Note:</strong> can we chase this book down and collect those references?</p></br><p>Earlier versions of this find were submitted by Richard Hershberger (2007) and John Thorn (2004).  </p>tted by Richard Hershberger (2007) and John Thorn (2004).  </p>)
• Rounders - Britain  + (<p>A relatively complete description … <p>A relatively complete description of "roundstakes", or "rounders,"  as played in Eastern Massachusetts in about 1870, is found at [[roundstakes]].  The account is shown in that item's  "Supplemental Text."</p></br><p>--</p></br><p><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">An aside: Plugging in Rounders?</span> </p></br><p>About baserunning, Gomme (page 145) writes in 1898:  "As soon as (the batter)has struck the ball, he runs from the base to the first boundary stick, then to the second, and so on. His opponents  in the meantime secure the ball and endeavor to hit him with it as he is running."    </p></br><p>Protoball has found scant evidence that rounders included retiring baserunners by hitting them with the thrown ball.  On May 7 2022, however, John Thorn posted this excerpt from <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Wickets in the West</span> by R. A. Fitzgerald, published in 1873 and covering the 1872 cricket tour of the US:</p></br><p>"To sum it up, (base ball) is an improvement on our old schoolboys' game of rounders, without, however, the most attractive part to the English schoolboy -- the 'corking'.  We can see still, and we are not sure that we cannot still feel, the quiver of the fat boy's nether parts, as the ball, well-directed, buried  itself in his flesh." </p></br><p>Putting baserunners out via a thrown ball, recalled as "corking" in this English account, has been called "plugging," "soaking," "burning," etc., in America.  In about 1810, Block notes, the French game [[Poisoned  Ball]] used the tactic, and the German [[Giftball]] (Poison ball) seems to have, as well.   </p></br><p>--</p>son ball) seems to have, as well.   </p> <p>--</p>)
• 1859.1  + (<p>A research note by Jim Overmyer o … <p>A research note by Jim Overmyer on why the game occurred in Pittsfield appears as <strong>Supplemental Tex</strong>t  below. </p></br><p>For a stern critique of the student time spent away from studying, see <em>The Congregationalist</em> [Boston], September 2, 1859, cited at https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/amherst-and-williams-play-the-first-intercollegiate-game-of-baseball-1859-b1c0255f6338, posted January 15, 2018. </p>255f6338, posted January 15, 2018. </p>)

• Excelsior Club of Baltimore v Potomac Club of Washington in 1859  + (<p>A search of online newspapers shows no record of any 1859 game.</p>)

• Athlete Jr Base Ball Club of Philadelphia2  + (<p>A separate Jr club from the one organized on June 3, 1866 located in the Twentieth Ward.</p>)
• 1848.10  + (<p>A team size of 12 and three-game match are consistent with some Mass game contests.</p>)
• 21st Century Townball  + (<p>A video of the game is at: </p … <p>A video of the game is at: </p></br><p><a href="http://ds.uhs.csufresno.edu/video/websiteMedia/townball16.mp4">http://ds.uhs.csufresno.edu/video/websiteMedia/townball16.mp4</a>  [loads slowly 9/8/2107]</p></br><p>--</p></br><p>Some particularly interesting variants from baseball include [note that key cricket characteristics are retained]:</p></br><p> </p></br><p>[] No foul balls [and no foul territory]</p></br><p>[] Plugging of runners is allowed</p></br><p>[] Basepath distance progresses  from from 42' to 110'feet sequentially</p></br><p>[] Batters defend a "zone" as cricket batters defend a wicket</p></br><p>[] Optional running except for third strike.</p></br><p>[] No set batting order -- can vary inning to inning</p></br><p> </p>et</p> <p>[] Optional running except for third strike.</p> <p>[] No set batting order -- can vary inning to inning</p> <p> </p>)
• Waggles  + (<p>A web search for "waggles england" in 2017 returns only the 1898 Gomme citation of the game.</p>)
• D. Eagan  + (<p>AKA D. Eagan</p>)
• Hit the Bat  + (<p>AKA Roll-the-Bat, Cherry, Rollabat. Cf. Sullivan, "Roll-the-Bat," <em>Southwest Folklore</em> 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, <em>The Games We Played</em> (2001), p. 77</p>)
• Symmes2  + (<p>AKA Symms</p>)
• 1860.45  + (<p>About 20% of the games covered in … <p>About 20% of the games covered in available 1860 newspaper accounts of base ball in Syracuse depict "old-fashioned base ball" as played by a set of five area clubs. The common format for these games was a best-two-of-three match of games played to 25 "tallies" [not runs]. A purse of $25 was not uncommon. Teams exceeded nine players. However, no account laid out the details of the playing rules, or how they differed from those of the National Association. An 1859 article suggested that the game was the same as "Massachusetts "Base Ball," giving the only firm clue as to its rules. </p>ng the only firm clue as to its rules. </p>)
• Barn Ball (House Ball)  + (<p>Abraham Lincoln is said to have played barn ball with enthusiasm in Springfield c. 1858. Nicholas Young remembered playing barn ball in the Mohawk Valley in the 1850s.</p>)
• In St. Louis in 1860  + (<p>According to "Baseball Pioneers" the Morning Star BBC played town ball for several years prior to 1860. </p>)
• Morning Star Club of St. Louis  + (<p>According to Jeff Kittel in "Baseball Pioneers" the Morning Star BBC played town ball for several years prior to 1860. </p>)
• Star Club of Newark2  + (<p>According to Newark Daily Advertiser of 8/21/1866, the players were members of the Young Men's Catholic Association.  This is a different club from the 1861 Star Club of Newark</p>)
• 1781s.4  + (<p>According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913, "lazzarone" referred to "the homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging." </p>)
• Judge's Spring  + (<p>According to http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html, Judge's Spring (or McNairy's Spring), was located at approximately 7th Ave. and Jackson St. in Nashville.</p>)
• Brilliant Stars Club of Elizabeth  + (<p>According to the New Brunswick Daily Fredonian of 9/17/1869 - this was a "colored" club</p>)
• 1860.42  + (<p>According to the WSOT article, the Excelsior lineup included Creighton as pitching and third batter, Brainerd at 2B, and Leggett as catcher. Mr. Welling of the Knickerbockers served as umpire.</p>)
• Banana Ball  + (<p>According to this article, "banana ball" debuted in 2021:</p> <p>https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/introducing-banana-ball-the-savannah-bananas-attempt-to-change-baseball/</p>)
• 1854.13  + (<p>Actually, Mr. Calthrop may have come along about 95 years too late to make that claim: see #[[1760s.1]] above.</p>)
• 1827.2  + (<p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-fr … <p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-frame device is interesting to baseball history buffs, but the authenticity of the recollected game is hard to judge in a work of fiction. Mumford's lot was in fact an early Rochester ballplaying venue, and Thurlow Weed (see entry #[[1825c.1]]) wrote of club play in that period. Priscilla Astifan has been looking into Adams' expertise on early Rochester baseball. See #[[1828c.3]] for another reference to Adams' interest in baseball about a decade before the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>re the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>)
• Club of Hamburg, Germany  + (<p>Additional sources for same report, with some detail. The Maine club involved reported as the Gorham Base Ball Club.</p>)
• 1855.16  + (<p>Adelman bases his analysis on the … <p>Adelman bases his analysis on the premise that base ball's predecessor games were played mainly be juveniles.  This premise can be questioned.  Even discounting play by university youths up to 1845, adult play in the military and elsewhere was hardly rare before the Gothams and Knickerbockers formed in New York around 1840, as many entries in this chronology indicate.  </p>dicate.  </p>)
• 1853c.15  + (<p>Adelman does not mention that until 1854 there were few other known clubs for the KBBC to challenge to match games.</p> <p> </p>)
• 1862.9  + (<p>Admission had occasionally also been charged for "benefit" games for charities or to honor prominent players.</p>)
• Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 18 June 1871  + (<p>African American Clubs</p>)
• Club of Columbus  + (<p>African American ball club.</p>)